South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-06-10


One hundred and City Mormon em.
igrants landed at New York on
Wednesday.
Senator Sherman is making spcech-
g in the West, trying to get the Re-
publican nomination for President
next year.
Several warehouses and %. 900
bales of cotton were burned at Per.
nam5aco. South America. Loss.
about s2.00O,O00.
The breaking Of the dykes Of the
Theiss river. In Hungary. resulted in
. dsmage to the adjoining country,
by flooding, of IS. 100000.
Captain Jack Hussey. of Castle
Garden, the savior of thirty -four per-
sons from drowning and the possessor
of number Of medais Of honor from
Congress, the Legislature and other
bodies WAS fatally shot by drunken
policeman in New York on Thurs
day night.
Chas. buckley. orc CT the mon ar.
rested for the Mcneil (Texas) train
robbery, proves {, have been spy
who was watching the robbers. anti
has made a statement, giving the de-
tails Of the robbery.
Chas. Rice, a ten year Old boy, was
drowned while bathing at Charleston,
this State, thursday.
Miss Lille Baker, daughter of
Hon. Lewis Baker, Of the ST.. Paul
Globe. formerly editor of the Wheel.
ing Register, was married Wednes-
day in ST. Paul, Minnesots, to Mr.
Charles Warren, General Passenger
Agent of the Manitoba Railroad.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has
ordered Internal Revenue Collector
McGraw to remove his Office from
Grafton to one of the three govern
ment buildines within the State. This
order takes effect July 1. The build-
ing at wheeling or Parkersburg will
probably be selected.
Ex.Union and Ex. Confederate SOL
diers united at Richmond in strewing
with flowers the graves OF the deaf
of both armies who are buried there.
In the City Court at Paducah, XIV,
Thursday, Mollie Jackson, a white
woman, was convicted Of vagrancy
and ordered TO be sold to the highest
| bidder for thirty days,
| The coal mine operators in West
Virginia refuse 10 recognize the act
recently passed by the Legislature.
requiring tue semismonthly payment
of miners.
Well-posted Virginia Democrats
believe that the cnlored vote OF thai
State will be divided In the next
presidential election.
An earthquake wave swept over
northern e. lifornia and western Ne
vada Friday.
John N. Oliver refuses to surreDs
der IL Office OF Justice OF the peace.
10 the District OF Columbia, from
which he was removed bv President
Cleveland, claiming that the Supreme
Court alone has authority TO order
his removal.
There is q prospect OF an early
settlement OF the fishery troubles
with Great Britain.
It is reported that eos, 900, 900, or
S475 900 900 Of hidden Treasure havo
been discovered in the palace Of n
deceased vizier at Raba'. Morocco,
Free delivery of mail mattor will
be established at Cumberland July !.
Mr. w. w. Corcoran, of Washing
ton, was stricken with paralysis Mon
day last.
Confederate Memorial d " at Win
chester was impressiveiy observed.
Rev. A. s. Hank, Of the Baltimore
Conference, nj. T. Church, died in
Martinsburg, Tuesday last.
The wheat crop between Harrison.
burg end Winchester, Va, is very
promising.
CHI Justice Mercur, of the Sn-
preme Court Of Pennsylvania, is dead.
The survivors Of Pickeits Division
will visit the Gettysburg battlefield
in July.
Fifty thousand families have been
ruined by the floods in Hungary.
! About the 18th of this month the
Postoflice Department will begin Ike
issue OF new one-cent postage
stamp.
Col. Harry Gilmor's monument was
unveiled in Loudon Park. Baltimore,
Monday. 1t stands twelve feet high.
and. except the bottom base, is OF
Italian marble.
Garrett county Md. has a plague
Of pote 10 bugs.
Many wealthy English and Irish
landlords are turning :heir poor ten
ants out of their houses in Ireland
for their non-payment OF rent and
and other causes. The peasants de-
Tended their homes from, the officers
sent to evict hem in several queer
ways last week. by turning bees
loose among them. by throwing boil
ing water upon them, and by filling
their eyes with cayenne pepper.
Cardinal Gibbons has arrived IN
Baltimore from Rome.
Hon. VIM. A. Wheeler, ex- Vice.
President of the United States died at
his bone at Malone, New York, on
Saturday.
Eight men we're killed and six bad
ly injured Saturday by a premature
explosion of dynamite at the Cambria
Iron Company's stone quarrIes at
Birmingham, Pa.
Lawrence Donovan. the Brooklyn
bridge jumper, Sunday Jumped from
London bridge into The Ihanes.
The Grand Lodge OF free eIasons